Python, ASP, ADO, and Image string/binary problems

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 7 10:06:26 EST 2001


"Shonn Gilson" <shonn at shonn.com> wrote in message
news:tac37rqd7o2h64 at corp.supernews.com...

    [about using buffer for binary-blob args to/from COM methods]

> Perfect. It works for both Response.BinaryWrite and doing an AppendChunk
> with ADO. I noticed that it was coming in as a buffer from ADO but
> everything that I saw relating to buffers was that they were an
undocumented
> necessary evil.
> Thank you, that ends a lot of frustration.

You're welcome.  I've seen derogatory comments (and very little
doc) about buffer too, not sure why, but it sure IS necessary
if you want to exchange binary blobs to/from COM/Automation:-).


Alex






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